Investors in Irish mortgage start-up wiped out, HMV is back on Henry Street, and vaping’s battle with regulators

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HMV drops the needle on new Henry Street store

Music and merchandise retailer makes its much-anticipated Irish return after closing in 2016

Cannes rolls out traditional red carpet as Côte d’Azur shimmers into festival season

Planet Business: Brexit car industry warning, Linda ‘the Velvet Hammer’ Yaccarino and a brief history of HMV

Hilco took £25m in dividends from Homebase despite £10.6m in UK Covid aid

Many other large UK retailers have handed back government supports

Olympic countdown, Euro 2020 TV ratings and 100 years of HMV

Planet Business: What’s next for Sheryl Sandberg?

Lights, camera, action: cinemas reopen after five months

Light House programme manager Charlene Lydon is confident the crowds will return

High-street stroll reveals ravaged retail landscape

London Letter: Boarded-up shops testify to commercial and social damage of Covid-19

Irish Recording Company: Few know of these top-quality 1940s gems

An Irishman’s Diary: Story of the first trad record label under Bill Stapleton

King of the Pipers – An Irishman’s Diary on Leo Rowsome

Jewellery maker Links of London enters administration, 350 jobs at risk

Company’s products sold through numerous Irish outlets

Pop culture in Ireland was always divided between North and South

Shaping cultural identity formed part of the reason Raidió Teilifís Éireann was established

Dunnes Stores fails to overturn award in legal dispute at Galway shopping centre

Heffernan instructed staff to close the doors at store minutes after receiving legal proceedings from centre’s operator

Is traditional retail on the verge of extinction?

In the UK insolvencies have jumped by more than a fifth since 2016

Mike Ashley in coup attempt to seize control of Debenhams

Sports Direct boss announces plan to oust all but one director at ailing department store